‘His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth.’.‘Pagodas and Buddhist cloisters are another landmark of Yunnan.’.‘Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms.’.‘In turn, this plan was copied and adopted in cloisters and monasteries throughout Europe.’.‘There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.’.‘Henket solved the problem with one bold basic move: creating a glass and metal bridge at first floor level along the north side of the cloister.’.‘The very texts that the monks were reading in the cloister were often decorated with a similar repertoire of disturbing creatures.’.‘He was born at York and educated in the cloister school there under Archbishop Egbert.’.‘She who had abandoned the world outside the cloister walls found the microcosm of the community within too large.’.‘Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification.’.‘Before, books and maps were produced and copied by monks in cloisters.’.‘Sirens, the most common hybrids to be included in Romanesque sculpture, appear frequently in the context of the monastic cloister.’.‘Often the cloister was the only refuge for women who wanted to pursue learning and be active in scholarly life.’.‘The opera follows the destiny of Blanche de la Force as she enters the cloister at Compiegne, painting a portrait in sound of the humble, neurotic heroine.’.‘Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.’.‘Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery.’.‘And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters.’.‘Many significant people, scholars and nonscholars, enrich the Orthodox cloisters.’.‘There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole.’.‘The setting is revolutionary France and a cloister of Carmelite nuns.’.‘The many arches of the cloisters sprawled outward from the tower casting long irregular shadows in the early morning light.’.‘The cloisters and gardens are also open with the Fox Talbot Museum between February 26 and April 1.’.‘Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery.’.‘Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks.’.‘Danti's design of the monastery cloisters was particularly fine.’.‘As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers.’.‘Sitting rooms lead off a wide, airy corridor, like a convent cloister, where light floods in.’.‘Luca Signorelli started the decorative scheme with nine lunettes on the west side of the cloister.’.
‘We emerged from a doorway into a cloister surrounding a huge open field: the very core of the Citadel.’.‘The same serrated silhouette rounds off the long workshop volume on the opposite side of the cloister.’.‘‘It used to be like an open cloister but the archways were closed in,’ explained Mr Purslow.’.‘Maithris looked up at the question, then back to trailing a finger along the slender cast-iron columns fronting the cloister as we walked.’.‘Cain walked down the winding cloisters towards the prison cells and thought of the misery surrounding him now.’.‘The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters.’.‘It seemed that overnight they arrived, set up an office in the Cathedral cloisters, and sent out a troop of black-plumed guards to bring me to their head official.’.‘The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches.’.‘There is a small archaeological museum in the cloisters of the cathedral.’.‘Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally.’.‘A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday.’.‘In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk.’.
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